Time domain reflectometers

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Time domain reflectometers are used to determine the characteristics of electrical or optical transmission lines by observing reflected pulses.

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Documents Referencing Time domain reflectometers

Document Class Title Authors Year Links
Service Scope 38 Jun 1966.pdf Article Tektronix Type 1S2 Makes Reflectometry Easy 1966
Service Scope 45 Aug 1967.pdf Article Time-Domain Reflectometry Theory and the Testing of Coaxial Transmission Lines 1967
062-1244-00.pdf Book Measurement Concepts: Time-Domain Reflectometry Measurements James A. Strickland Al Zimmerman Gordon Long George Frye 1969

Patents that may apply to Time domain reflectometers

Page Title Inventors Filing date Grant date Links
Patent US 3434049A Time domain reflectometry system having a current source for locating discontinuities in a transmission line George Frye 1965-12-06 1969-03-18
Patent US 4755742A Dual channel time domain reflectometer Agoston Agoston John Rettig Stan Kaveckis John E. Carlson Andrew E. Finkbeiner 1986-04-30 1988-07-05
Patent US 4743753A Method and apparatus for carrying out fiber optic time domain reflectomery wherein Golay complementary sequences are applied John Cheng Jeffrey H. Goll J. Nelson Edwards 1986-09-05 1988-05-10
Patent US 4924110A High speed step generator output circuit John Rettig Jonathan Lueker John E. Carlson Stan Kaveckis Roy Lewallen 1988-09-08 1990-05-08
Patent US 4989971A Automatic mask trigger for an optical time domain reflectometer Kevin B. McDonald 1989-07-14 1991-02-05
Patent US 6437578B1 Cable loss correction of distance to fault and time domain reflectometer measurements Linley Gumm 2000-11-14 2002-08-20

Reflectometer products

Model Description Introduced Discontinued
1501 Portable time-domain reflectometer 1971 1975
1502 Time-domain reflectometer 1975 (?)
1502B Time-domain reflectometer 1988 (?)
1502C Time-domain reflectometer 1992 (?)
1503 Time-domain reflectometer 1976 (?)
1503B Time-domain reflectometer 1988 (?)
1503C Time-domain reflectometer 1992 (?)
281 TDR Pulser 1966 1972
OF150 Optical time-domain reflectometer 1982 (?)
OF151 Optical time-domain reflectometer 1986 (?)
OF152 Optical time-domain reflectometer 1985 (?)
OF235 Optical time-domain reflectometer 1986 (?)
TFS2020 Portable optical time domain reflectometer 1990 (?)
TFS3030 portable optical time domain reflectometer 1994 (?)
TFS3031 portable optical time domain reflectometer (?) (?)
TS200 Telephone access network analyzer (?) (?)